Opening Statement
My fellow Americans, now that the civil war is over, I think it is time to take drastic and necessary action against those who opposed the ways of the United States. As leader of the Radical Republicans, I propose that we severely punish any Confederates that stand against the equal treatment of slaves. In order for the Reconstruction to be a success, lenient consequences of the South's behavior can not be tolerated, which means that president Johnson's proposal for Reconstruction can not be endured as well. Also, any ex-Confederate leaders should not be able to have the right to run for office, since their seceding ways will only lead America into a further segregated future. They have tried to split up the Union before and if they are allowed power in the form of a political office, they will surely stop at nothing to split up the U.S.
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